Toggle Construction geometry?

thomthom

I'm not finding anything that toggles the display of Construction geometry - missing or am I just blind?

thomthom

Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options['HideConstructionGeometry']

( dont like the Hide* prefixed type of settings )

TIG

What's more awkward about 'Hide*' any more than 'Show*' or 'Display*' ?

ros=Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options
if ros['HideConstructionGeometry']
  ros['HideConstructionGeometry']=false 
else
  ros['HideConstructionGeometry']=true
end

Or use one of your one-line tests "? ||" or "=!"...

thomthom

I prefer to negate logic using the ! operator. The API is inconsistent and makes reading the code logic random.

TIG

Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options['HideConstructionGeometry'] =! Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options['HideConstructionGeometry'] would work logically too ? Doesn't it just reverse the current setting ?

thomthom

I mean in the way you read code.

This article explains:
http://truelogic.org/wordpress/2009/02/27/how-not-to-name-a-boolean-variable/

Dan Rathbun

I note there are 7 other settings that are positive, and begin with the prefix "Display".. and one positive that begins with the prefix "Show"...

The lack of convention is annoying.